Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-01
THE RAILROADS.
What Fort WORTH Has Done in the Way
of Railroads for the Year
Just Gone.
Construction in the Territory-A Line Into
the City for rhs Fort Worth 8
Denver-Home Notes,


Pacific, was in the City yesterday.
Dan Carey, the veteran railroad con-
tractor, was in the city last night.
Dr.. Ennis, the great California excur.
sion manager, left for Chicago LAST night
Three forces Of men end teams are now
grading on the Fort Worth & Denver be-
youd Quanah.
Trainmaster judy returned from Abb
lene Yesterday, ard reports light snow
at that place.
Z E Styner, chief train dispatcher Of
the Texas & Pacific at Big Springs, was
IN the city last night.
j. NJ. SEeerP, assistant general freight
agent of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe,
was in the city yesterday.
WI Lake Of the Fort Worth & Rio
Grande and Fort Worth Western, left for
Denver last night via Ell Paso.
C. D. LUX and his assistant, Farnk
Williams, were busy until lare hour last
night making out their monthly reports.
Ed Mower brought il a freight train
fIon Gainesville yesterday, The first over
the road. The TT p was made IN six hours
with stops at all stations.
Col. Peter Smith has returned FROM a
brief trip to Galveston, where he SAW and
conversed with Nessrs. Sealy, Davis and
Willis of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe.
On Monday the gentlemen interested in
the Denton, Decatur & Jacksboro road
will meet in Fort Worth to perfect their
plans, and soon thereafter work will
probably begin.
!. j. Mulane, agent of the Santa Fe at
Fort Worth, accompanied by his sister.
Mrs. J. f Lehane, has gone to Houston,
where their mother, an aged lady Of sixty
seven, il very i'll.
Col. Morgan Jones, president If the
Fort Worth & Denver, is in Eastern
Texas looking after the getting out of a
lot Of piling needed on the Indian
Territory contract.
The Fort Worth & Denver is running a
preliminary line from Hodge to Fort
Worth on which to build track of its
own into this city. The line as st present
run is four miles from Hodge to Fort
Worth.
Judge W II. Bullock Of Decatur was
in the city last nignt. He says the pc ople
of Decatur want another railroad and
have about given up all hopes Of the
Gulf & Pacific, but tie to the Denton.
Decatur & J 4cks boro road.
IltlO u I1dppS Nov lSai W tuc 1ail-
road fraternity, to each and every indi-
Vidual from the president and receivers
to the humblest brakeman. May you all
have prosperous year, and may the re-
latiors between the employer and the en-
ployes be pleasant and harmonious, and
when 1883 dswns may you all meet in the
greatest CITY in the state which you have
helped to build, the only great railroad
center-FOrt Worth.
J. N. Phillips, master Of Transports
ton of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe,
was in the city Yesterday and leaves on
the IirSI passenger train this morning at
10 o'clock for G iiIesville. Several Fort
Worthians will be on the train, which
will 60 up as special and return Sunday
morning as the first through
regular passenger train from Gainesville
to Fort Worth and Galveston. MIR.
Phillips has vast amount of business to
attend to now that his road covers so
much territory.
TT .Sporer of Jacksboro was in the city
yesterday and called on Col. Lawrence,
first vlce-president of the Fort Worth
Western, and Z a. Morse, land and town
agent of the road. Mr.. Sporer says the
people If J4ckSboro are decidedly in
commercial ties are here as well as per
personal friends. He ssys the coal fl-lds
Of jack county have not been given that
prominence thu deserve, for the coal is
equal TO any discovered in the state and in
large quantities. He also says the build
ing stone found in Jack county near to
Jacksb0ro is very fine. II the city of
Jacks zorro is peopled With such gentle
EISf yrb
have lately been in our city to secure
this road, Fort Worth certainly wants di
rect Communication with it, and from
what can be learned the little city is
hlied with Just such citizens.
The false work over Red river above
Gainesville is in, and trains can now
cross On Monday track laying begins
in the Territory, and it is the firm inten-
ton Of the company to push construction
as fast as possible. 1t is decided that
twenty five miles of track must be laid in
January, thirty five miles in February and
fity-fve miles in March, which will COM
plete the road to the end of the j Jres &
Carey contract. The contractors
on the Arkansas City extern
sion have seventy-fve miles of track
laid south of that city, and the gap is to
ison and Kansas City to Fort Worth and
Galveston by May l.. The contractors are
delayed somewhat by the fact that they
can buy no stone or timber from the In
dams. Both are there in abundance, but
while tee Indians need the money, their
stone, worthless to them, would bring
the government says they must not dis
pose of one perch of it, and thus COM
pels the contractors to haul stone as well
as timber from Texas.
Fort Worth has made her railroad re
cord for 1886, and what is 1t? Home
capital has Quilt the Fort Worth New
Orleans from Fort Worth to WaXahachie,
forty-two miles, and it has brought the
Houston & Texas Central to our city. Fort
Worth paid in subsidy and right o. way
Ss5,000 to effect this.
The Fort Worth & Denver has extended
its line sixty-seven miles during the year
and is still building to the northwest.
Fort Worth paid $4,000 in cash and
paid for a certain amount of rignt Of way
to have the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
extend, and that rosd is now operated to